Cross-site scripting in SocksJS-node

Description

htmlfile in lib/transport/htmlfile.js in SockJS before 0.3.0 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the /htmlfile c (aka callback) parameter.

Recommendation

Update the sockjs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.3.0
• Patched version(s): 0.3.0

References

• GHSA-hh8v-jmh3-9437
• snyk.io
• www.sockjs.org
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-8823
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Cross-site Scripting in Joplin - CVE-2020-15930
• Cross-site Scripting in dompurify (GHSA-63q7-h895-m982) - CVE-2020-26870
• Cross-site Scripting in vis-timeline - CVE-2020-28487
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Eclipse Theia - CVE-2020-27224

Tags:

npm

sockjs